[photo-3d] Re: RE: Chromatic aberration

[Jim Crowell <jcrowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Years ago I noticed in non achromatic flattie slide viewers that
>> red objects appeared radically displaced from the rest of the
>> image plane. So the problem doesn't lie in the difference
>> between the L & R images, but that different colors appear in
>> different planes due to optical effects (defects).
> 
> Why do different colors appear in different
> planes?  This really translates to saying that they
> appear displaced as seen by the right and left eye.

'cause the chromatic aberrations are in opposite directions in the two eyes
(because the orientation of the prismatic component of the lens is
opposite).  Thus, a color that's being refracted more to the right in the
left eye is being refracted more to the left in the right eye.

-Jim C.

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